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Monday Morning Quarterbacking of Oakridge in "Secret Millionaire"

The long awaited episode of Secret Millionaire featuring Oakridge, Oregon aired last night on ABC. Did you watch it? Thoughts? Include your thoughts and opinions in the comment section below. Episode Summary George Rapier is the founder of WellMed, a medical management company that provides services to senior citizens. As part of "Secret Millionaire," he...

WA: Jon Amundson, City of Richland, WA

What do we hope to learn from this series? We hope you will gain a better understanding of the unique characteristics of local government in each state, we hope you will learn that there are others like you who are motivated to make a difference through the public sector, and we hope you will...

Knope of the Week: Kasia Benoit and Matt Donahue, D.A Davidson & Co.

American City & County Magazine Highlights Knope of the Week What is the Knope of the Week? It’s ELGL’s way of recognizing an individual or group of individuals who have excelled in promoting the public sector. Recipients may come from the public or private sector and are nominated by ELGL members. Recipients receive an incredible amount of recognition...

MPA from My APT: Hearing Voices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsz4S8xJ-PM This is another installment of an ELGL original content series titled “An MPA From My Apt.” by University of Southern California MPA distance graduate program student Josh Halladay. Halladay is sharing his experiences with a distance learning program in the hopes of providing perspective and support to other students who are pondering a...

Triple Aim on the Affordable Care Act and the Oregon Health Policy Commission

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2UUcXCo9g Taking Triple on Health Care with Josh Schultz We’ve seen the clever Cover Oregon commercials and heard the back-and-forth about “Obamacare” also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). For those of us in the public sector, we may think that we won’t be impacted because of the quality health insurance offered by our city,...

New Sensation with John McCarter, City of Novi (MI) and Oakland University MPA

What better way to learn about a new ELGL member than a series of extremely personal questions that may or may not be work related. That is our goal in the New Sensation feature. Whether it is learning about a person’s top accomplishments in the last 24 hours or learning about the inside of their...

Carolina on My Mind: Humidity, Jitters, and Dook

Rafael Baptista, the author of "A Passion for Public Service", is back to chronicle his two-year journey through the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Master of Public Administration program. You may already be familiar with the UNC MPA program from the ELGL feature On Campus with the Carolina MPA Program which was published last year....

#ELGL13 Twitter Team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n_EitPb7BU With only 120 spots at the conference, and an ELGL membership of more than 450 people in 18 states, you can imagine that there are many of our members who are disappointed they can't attend the conference. So, we are beefing up our social media presence (even more than usual!) for the conference...

Defining Sustainability: STAR Communities

Word on the Street About Defining Sustainability Kevin Hughes, AICP, Principal Environmental Advanced Planner, posted the following comment on LinkedIn after reading the first Defining Sustainability with Beth Otto, "I recommend the working being done by ELGL in Oregon for advancing the cause of Public Administration Best Management Practices." After those kind words, the pressure is...

Here Comes the Fall

The recent dreary weather we've had in the Willamette Valley has reminded everyone that fall is fast approaching. Along with the cooler weather fall also brings the start of the school year and football season. This year fall also marks the beginning of a brand new type of ELGL networking event! Micronetworking ELGL is always...

Knope of the Week: Dr. Charles Heying, Author of Brews to Bikes

American City & County Magazine Highlights Knope of the Week What is the Knope of the Week? It’s ELGL’s way of recognizing an individual or group of individuals who have excelled in promoting the public sector. Recipients may come from the public or private sector and are nominated by ELGL members. Recipients receive an incredible amount of recognition...

Profiling #ELGL13 Attendees

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKBcvsByt6M If you registered for the #ELGL13, you were asked to answer a series of probing questions. You might have thought “what a great idea”, or “what a terrible waste of time”. If you fall into the latter category, you probably aren’t reading this post and we might have put a hex on you....

CA, FL, OR: Douglas Ayres, Former City Manager of Inglewood (CA), Melbourne (FL), and Salem (OR)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhDrGnjacvA Fifty Nifty Takeaways What do we hope to learn from this series? We hope you will gain a better understanding of the unique characteristics of local government in each state, we hope you will learn that there are others like you who are motivated to make a difference through the public sector, and...

Welcome ELGL's First International Member

ELGL would like to welcome its first international member, Cindy Fu! Cindy is a graduate student in China and learned about ELGL from Bill Monahan, City Manager of Millwaukie. She was a teaching assistant for his class on Trends in US Urbanization at a university in Beijing. Of course when she learned about ELGL she had to become...

The Rest of the Story on the Hillsboro Police Recruitment Video

The Story The Hillsboro Police Department began recruitment for a new police chief several weeks ago. In advertising for the position, they included a six minute recruitment video. Since then, the video has gone viral. Gawker first brought the video to the nation's attention and BBC News has spread the video across the pond. Police...

New Sensation: Alexander Stuehr, Mediate.com, Director of Member Service

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16LskNnMUPk What better way to learn about a new ELGL member than a series of extremely personal questions that may or may not be work related. That is our goal in the New Sensation feature. Whether it is learning about a person's top accomplishments in the last 24 hours or learning about the inside...

Agenda: Brew to Bikes: Portland's Artisan Economy with Dr. Charles Heying

Meeting Agenda: Dr. Charles Heying, Brews to Bikes Attendees: Can I Bum a Ride to the Brews to Bikes Forum? RSVP: Brew to Bikes: Portland's Artisan Economy Featuring Charles Heying Join ELGL in a lunch-and-learn session from Dr. Charles Heying, author of "Brew to Bikes: Portland's Artisan Economy." Dr. Heying will walk us through the elements of Portland's...

Josh's Job Search 2.0: Allow Me to Introduce Myself.....Myself

When Josh Gregor, the creator of "Josh's Job Search", landed a permanent job with the city of Portland, we launched a nationwide search for another unemployed person named Josh. It took a while but we have found our Josh. Josh Halladay will take the reigns of the feature and will hopefully be as successful as...

Knope of the Week: Thomas Frank, West Linn City Councilor

American City & County Magazine Highlights Knope of the Week What is the Knope of the Week? It’s ELGL’s way of recognizing an individual or group of individuals who have excelled in promoting the public sector. Recipients may come from the public or private sector and are nominated by ELGL members. Recipients receive an incredible amount of recognition...

The Rest of the Story on Best City Council Commercial Ever

The Best City Council Television Ad In Existence While viewing the video was funny and reading the commentary was interesting, ELGL felt it was our "life calling" to track down the creator of the video and tell him he is the greatest, most creative, innovative, smartest person ever. Then we also decided to run a few questions...